ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,762, issued on May 5, was assigned to SHAPE SECURITY INC. (Seattle).

"Group-based affinity scoring for affiliate websites" was invented by Sumit Agarwal (Pal Alto, Calif.) and Yao Zhao (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, device and system that maintains aggregate visit data comprising group visit data for a plurality of groups and a plurality of affiliate websites based on processed request data for a plurality of requests. First request data corresponding to a first request from a client to a web server system is received. At least a first group from the plurality of group...